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Blues Musicians - Want Your Gigs Listed On This Calendar?

Dallas/Ft Worth/N Texas Blues Musicians - Want to see your weekly gigs listed on this calendar and have them read live on the air on KNON's BIG TEXAS BLUES program?

Email (no texts, messages to this blog or Facebook posts accepted) your gigs for the upcoming week NO LATER THAN Tuesday Evening to: bluelisablues@aol.com

Please include the following: Your name * Band Name (if Applicable) * If it is full band gig, solo or duo * Name of Venue * City Venue is located in * Time your show starts and ends

Remember - this is a BLUES calendar posted on a BLUES blog and read on a BLUES radio show, so please only include BLUES gigs. Also, only include shows within the Dallas/Ft Worth/N Texas area.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Thanks to Joanna Iz from Southwest Blues Magazine for sending this on to me so that I can share it with you.

WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE.

This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago. Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.

The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air. They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed andknocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffereda heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating,choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote. For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.

So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because-why, exactly?We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining?As a junior high student in the late 1970's, when Desoto, Texas was a close minded, tiny, backwards little country town that thought itself a big city, an enlightened history teacher turned one class over to me to talk to my classmates about the struggles of women just to have basic rights. All these years later, exercising the right to vote is still one of my passions. Women (and thinkers of both genders) we are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and I think a little shock therapy is in order.It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy.The doctor admonished the men: 'Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.' Please, if you are so inclined, pass this on to all the women you know. We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by these very courageous women. Whether you vote democratic, republican or independent party – remember to vote.

When you find spelling or information errors on this blog, it's because the Head of Quality Control here at Blue Lisa Central, Mr Starksy, insists on being paws on. Literally. That's his "Stop typing and feed me NOW" face.

Hutchinson

I saw my little girl kitty, Hutchinson, across the Rainbow Bridge on March 25, 2016. I was so very lucky to have this little lady in my life for 18 years. Rest well my sweet baby. Starsky and I miss you.

Friday, August 26th - Saturday, May 7th - THE RETURN OF THE DALLAS BLUES DIVA's!! Andrea Dawson, Blue Lisa & Miss Marcy team up to bring you a hot night of awesome blues and trash talkin'!! YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS SHOW!!! - Babbs Brothers BBQ - Dallas (7p-10p)

Saturday, May 7th - THE RETURN OF THE DALLAS BLUES DIVA's!! Andrea Dawson, Blue Lisa & Miss Marcy team up to bring you a hot night of awesome blues and trash talkin'!! Paul Byrd on guitar! Billy Accord on bass! Bubba on drums! YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS SHOW!!! - Babbs Brothers BBQ - Dallas (7p-10p)